Blighter expands drone detection radar family
UK-based Blighter Surveillance Systems has launched a new UAS detection radar called A800 3D for air, land and sea surveillance.
CEO Angus Hone claimed that the new solid-state radar ‘offers revolutionary capabilities by performing precision surveillance in three complex environments at once using a single, cost-effective sensor’.
The main function of the radar is to detect and locate small COTS hobbyist drones such as the DJI Phantom, although Blighter notes that the optimised air security mode in the A800 provides the capability to search for low-slow-small threats approaching sensitive infrastructure sites such as military bases.
A800 also features an AI-based micro-Doppler target filtering feature to reduce false alarms and improve the detection of drones and multicopters.
The radar can be mounted on tripods, masts, towers, land vehicles and trailers.
A wide variety of industry standard interfaces are supported by the A800 including high grade encryption, and a software development kit is also available for download.
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